McGill announces 2017 Cundill History Prize longlist

The longlist for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, administered annually by Montreal’s McGill University for the best history writing in English, has been revealed. The prize is the richest in the world for the genre, awarding $75,000 to the recipient and $10,000 each to two runners-up.

University of Quebec history professor Christopher Goscha is the sole Canadian to make the list this year, alongside authors from the U.S., Australia, Austria, and the U.K.

A jury chaired by historian Margaret MacMillan selected the following 10 titles:

Daniel Beer, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Knopf Canada)

Christopher de Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times (Liveright)